adj. not characteristic of the upper classes especially in language use

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

adj. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"

adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"

adj. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"

adj. "lectured in a familiar style"

adj. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"

adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"

adj. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"

adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

adj. low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"

adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste

adj. lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"

adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"

adj. offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"

adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead

adj. designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"

adj. excessively abundant

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

adj. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

adj. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

adj. suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"

adj. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance

adj. disagreeable to the sense

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

adj. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

adj. richly and brilliantly colorful

adj. characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones"

adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

adj. occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien

adj. lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine"

adj. belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat

adj. of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

adj. written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence; "an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"; "the epistolatory novel"

adj. constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang; "a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"

adj. not written as or intended to be literature; "subliterary works such as letters and diaries"

adj. marked by lack of affectation or pedantry; "her talk was very unliterary"- W.D.Howells

adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

adj. not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"

adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

adj. unrefined in character; "low comedy"

adj. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"

adj. rude or uncouth in speech

adj. not befitting a gentleman

adj. lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady

adj. humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"

adj. having lewd thoughts

adj. using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once"

adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"

adj. dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"

adj. dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; "scatological literature"

adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"

adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

adj. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English"

adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

adj. of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth"

adj. of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

adj. extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation"

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"

adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"

adj. having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"

adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"

adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste

adj. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"

adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana

adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste

adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"

adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"